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Bacunayagua Bridge: One of the Seven Wonders of the Cuban Architecture

Cuba is an island that has many places toofficially  settled.
explore during your holidays and thousands of
marvels to see and to discover. One of thisThis impressive step that is 18 kilometers
wonders is the Bacunayagua Bridge, built inaway to the west of the city of Matanzas and
the  borders of Havana Province and Matanzas.it establishes the territorial limit with the
county of Havana. To the north of the
Matanzas had the opportunity to inaugurate inbridge, the immense sea is sighted; the
the first year of the Revolution the longestchannel and the outlet of what should be the
and highest bridge in Cuba until that moment.bed of a mighty river in a remote time, and
Its construction is historically a crisscrossto the south, the extensive and exuberant
with the Via Blanca (the highway thatValley  of  Yumurí.
connects Havana City and Varadero), begun by
Carlos Prío Socarrás´ government,The importance of that crossing for the Via
with the purpose of shortening the distanceBlanca resides in that is the nearest and
between Matanzas and Havana. A total of 41direct connection, for the beautiful
columns sustains the bridge of Bacunayagua,landscape of the Cuban north coast, between
those that were in its moment the mostthe Tunnel of the capital of the country and
slender  in  the  world  made  of  concrete.the  City  Spa  of  Varadero.
In 1957 the works of construction of theThe beauty of the environment of Bacunayagua,
bridge began, classified during that time asfavored by the execution of that advanced
a colossal work, not only for its extensionproject, alternates with multitude of
but for the height on an immense cliff. Itsheadlands, hillsides and mangroves, natural
columns possess a pile of 22.50 meters eachrefuge of great ornithological importance
one, with a width of a meter for 1.60 meters,where 74 species of birds cohabit with 16 of
and  some  reach  the  42  meters  high.reptiles and eight of amphibians. In the
ecosystem of swamp of this area vegetable
On its bolsters there are 6 beams that weighformations appear as the heath coastal
each one 47 tons, and that they were fused inxeroformo and the forest semideciduo, besides
the same place the bridge was being built. Ina rich and varied fauna with high percent of
total the bridge has a height 103 meters,endemism.
with a longitude 314 meters and a width of
17. On September26, 1959, Fidel Castro RuzThe magnitude and splendid image of the place
and Celia Sanchez inspected the works, thecan be appreciated perfectly from the
crossing for the splendid bridge constitutedMirador, located in an elevation to the end
the moment in that the road was inaugurated;west of the wonderful work. This is a unique
although it did not go up to October of thatinvitation you must take during your holidays
year, when the opening of the paths for thein the island.
communication between Havana and Matanzas was



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